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Insights on AI-era operations, web production, and what it actually looks like to build a company with one founder and AI.
When AI Workflows Start Fixing Themselves
A stress test rejected its own premise. A publishing task discovered pipeline gaps. Within hours, the system spawned fixes for its own failures. What happens when AI workflows have structured checkpoints — and why self-healing matters more than speed.
When Parallel AI Agents Start Catching Each Other's Gaps
Two AI sessions ran independently. Neither knew the other existed. One flagged a gap the other was already fixing. What happens when parallel AI agents produce structured outputs — and why emergent cross-checking matters more than speed.
What AI Can't Do: The Irreducible Floor of Human Judgment
Counter-narrative to 'AI replaces everything.' Five things that permanently stay human — and why that's a design principle, not a limitation.
What Swiss Banking Taught Me About Software Quality
When bugs mean compliance violations and downtime means financial penalties, you learn a different kind of engineering. Here's how enterprise constraints shaped how I build software today.